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Caroline Bird and Helen Mort

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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I Don't Want to Write a Poem About an Owl

I've always found poetry quite embarrassing. I don't want to be sincere, that's quite scary. A lot of my poems came almost like from that same impulse and then it was a poem. No one else is having your heartbreak or the way it makes the sound of horses hooves. That's it from now. It's all good to see you. Thank you, thank you.

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